Automatons, it has the freak

After viewing Severance, I decided to keep my ass in the movie seat and watch Automatons. I'm told it at one time had a longer title, Death to the Automatons, but the filmmakers are presently going with Automatons. Simple, yet cold. Just the way automatons like it.

So this movie, Automatons. It's a post-apocalyptic robot war. It sounds cool and it is. Yet bear in mind, the movie was filmed in 8mm black and white. It looks shoddy, and that's the point. It's all for the love of '50 b-movie, sci-fi horror. And it would make a perfect double feature alongside The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra.


The story puts one girl, aka The Girl, alone in a mechanics shop surrounded by the automatons she constantly repairs. Daily she sends them out to battle other atomotons, and watches the whole thing on TV monitors. If the enemy "warbots" kill her, that's just about it for the human race. She's one of perhaps a half dozen survivors. But she's holding out for hero. Go girl!

Kick it back to the Brattle for tomorrow's line-up.